JEE Advanced 2018 – Dates, Eligibility, Fees, Registration, Syllabus

Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) is conducted by the IITs under the guidance of the Joint Admission Board (JAB). The performance of a candidate in this examination will form the basis for admission to the Bachelor’s, Integrated Master’s and Dual Degree programs (entry at the 10+2 level) in all the IITs.

The JEE (Advanced) – 2018 will be held on May 20, 2018 (Sunday) as per following schedule:

Paper 1: 09:00 to 12:00 IST

Paper 2: 14:00 to 17:00 IST

Eligibility

Performance in JEE (Main) 2018

A candidate should be among the top 2,24,000 (including all categories) in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2018.

Category-wise distribution of top 2,24,000 candidates

Category

Number of Top candidates

OPEN

107,464

OPEN-PwD

5,656

OBC-NCL

57,456

OBC-NCL-PwD

3,024

SC

31,920

SC-PwD

1,680

ST

15,960

ST-PwD

840

Age limit

A candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 1993. Five years relaxation is given to SC, ST and PwD candidates.

Number of attempts

A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) a maximum of two times in consecutive years. Therefore, candidates who appeared in JEE (Advanced) 2017 for the first time are also eligible.

Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination

A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in all the subjects in either 2017 or 2018.

The candidates whose Class XII (or equivalent) examination Board results for the academic year 2015‐16 were declared after June 2016 are eligible.

Note: For admission to IITs, performance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination is also considered. You can check that criteria here.

Earlier admission at IITs

A candidate should NOT have been admitted in an IIT (irrespective of whether or not he/she continued in the program) OR accepted the IIT seat by reporting at a reporting centre in the past.

The candidates whose admission at IITs was cancelled are also NOT eligible.

The candidates who paid seat acceptance fee in 2017 but (i) did not report at any reporting centre, OR (ii) withdrew before the last round of seat allotment, OR (iii) had their seat cancelled (for whatever reason) before the last round of seat allotment for IITs, during the joint seat allocation in 2017 are eligible.

PwD Candidates

PwD Candidates

Dyslexic candidate needs to submit FORM-DYSLEXIC 1 and 2 instead of FORM-PwD. The certificate must mention SEVERE to enable the candidate get the benefit of PwD category.

Individual IITs may constitute a medical board at the time of admission to test the candidate’s level of disability.

DS Candidates

DS Candidates

Certificate (FORM-DS) issued by a competent authority in the Directorate of Resettlement and Rehabilitation, New Delhi under the Ministry of Defence or the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India.

PIO/OCI Candidates

PIO/OCI Candidates

PIO card or OCI certificate.

Admit Card

Candidates who successfully register for the JEE (Advanced) examination can download the admit card from JEE (Adv) portal from May 14, 2018 (from 10AM).

The admit card will contain the Name, Roll number, Photograph, Signature, Date of birth, Category, Address of the candidate, Address of the Test Centre allotted and Test schedule.

Candidates should carefully examine the entries in the admit card and in case of any discrepancy, contact the Chairman, JEE (Advanced) 2018 of the respective zonal coordinating IIT.

A printed copy of the downloaded admit card along with an original photo identity card should be produced at the time of examination.

Note: An original admit card will be issued to the candidates during the Paper 1 of the JEE (Advanced) 2018 examination. This original admit card must be retained safely till all the formalities of admission are complete.

Test Centres

IIT Bombay Zone

IIT Bombay Zone

Addis Ababa (ETHIOPIA)

Ahmedabad

Amravati

Aurangabad

Bengaluru

Bhavnagar

Bhuj

Dharwad

Gandhinagar

Gulbarga

Kolhapur

Madgaon

Mangaluru

Mumbai

Mysuru

Nagpur

Nanded

Nashik

Navi Mumbai

Panaji

Pune

Rajkot

Surat

Thane

Vadodara

Vasai

IIT Delhi Zone

IIT Delhi Zone

Ajmer

Alwar

Bikaner

Delhi (East)

Delhi (North)

Delhi (South)

Delhi (West)

Faridabad

Greater Noida

Gurugram

Jaipur

Jammu

Jodhpur

Kathmandu (NEPAL)

Noida

Palwal

Sikar

Udaipur

IIT Guwahati Zone

IIT Guwahati Zone

Agartala

Aizawl

Arrah

Bhagalpur

Bihar Sharif

Darbhanga

Gangtok

Gaya

Guwahati

Imphal

Jorhat

Muzaffarpur

Naharlagun

Patna

Purnea

Samastipur

Shillong

Silchar

Siliguri

Singapore (SINGAPORE)

Tezpur

IIT Kanpur Zone

IIT Kanpur Zone

Allahabad

Bhopal

Faizabad

Gorakhpur

Indore

Jabalpur

Jhansi

Kanpur

Lucknow

Varanasi

IIT Kharagpur Zone

IIT Kharagpur Zone

Asansol

Baharampur

Berhampur

Bhilai

Bhubaneshwar

Bilaspur

Bokaro

Cuttack

Dhaka (BANGLADESH)

Dhanbad

Durgapur

Jamshedpur

Kalyani

Kharagpur

Kolkata (North)

Kolkata (Salt Lake)

Kolkata (South)

Port Blair

Raipur

Ranchi

Rourkela

Visakhapatnam

IIT Madras Zone

IIT Madras Zone

Alappuzha

Anantapur

Chennai

Coimbatore

Dubai (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)

Eluru

Guntur

Hyderabad

Kakinada

Kannur

Karimnagar

Kasaragod

Khammam

Kochi

Kollam

Kottayam

Kozhikode

Kurnool

Madurai

Mahabubnagar

Malappuram

Nellore

Nizamabad

Ongole

Palakkad

Puducherry

Rajahmundry

Salem

Thiruvananthapuram

Thrissur

Tiruchirapalli

Tirunelveli

Tirupati

Vijayawada

Warangal

IIT Roorkee Zone

IIT Roorkee Zone

Agra

Aligarh

Ambala

Amritsar

Bahadurgarh

Bareilly

Bathinda

Bhimtal

Chandigarh

Colombo (SRI LANKA)

Dehradun

Ghaziabad

Gwalior

Haldwani

Hamirpur

Haridwar

Hisar

Jalandhar

Kurukshetra

Ludhiana

Mandi

Mathura

Meerut

Mohali

Moradabad

Panipat

Patiala

Roorkee

Shimla

Note

Note

Efforts will be made to allot the centre from among the candidate’s choice but a different centre in the same zone may be allotted under exceptional circumstances.

Request for change centre will not be entertained under any circumstances.

Answer Keys

The answer keys for both the papers will be displayed on the JEE (Advanced) website on May 29, 2018 at 10AM.

The candidates who are not satisfied with the answer key may challenge it online.

The responses of the candidates who have appeared for both Paper 1 and Paper 2, recorded during the exam, will be mailed to their registered email ids.

Rank List

Only the candidates who appear in both Paper 1 and Paper 2 will be considered for ranking.

Rank list will be prepared based on the aggregate marks obtained by the candidate.

A candidate who qualifies in more than one category will be considered in all the categories to which he/she belongs for the purpose of ranking.

Only the candidates who score the minimum prescribed marks in each subject and in aggregate will be included in the rank list.

Result

Results will be available on JEE (Advanced) site on June 10, 2018 at 10AM.

Category‐wise All India Ranks (AIR) of successful candidates will be available on JEE (Advanced) site after the results are declared.

Individual rank cards will not be sent to the candidates.

Architecture Aptitude Test

Candidates desirous of joining the B. Arch. program at IITs will have to pass in the Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT).

AAT Details

AAT Details

Only those candidates who have qualified in JEE (Advanced) 2018 are eligible to appear in AAT 2018.

Candidates must register online at the JEE (Advanced) site for AAT.

The exam will consist of one paper of three hours duration.

The question paper for AAT will be available in English language only.